There are actually quite a large number of grassroots jazz tabloids, from New York's All About Jazz to similar efforts from Vermont to Los Angeles. Those strike me as being far closer to zine culture than to mainstream press. But I also remember buying a Xeroxed Bay Area improv zine called Something Else about eight years ago... it even came with an exclusive cassette of folks like Crispell and Gino Robair. I think it's more widespread than we know, but perhaps it's not as prevalent in jazz as in rock. All I know is that when I was fresh out of college and back in Houston, I wanted to start such a zine myself, but lacked the manhours in which to do it. Story of my life. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Wagner, Tannhauser Overture - Concertgebouw/Mengelberg (Naxos) -------Original Message------- From: Perfect Sound Forever <perfect-sound@furious.com> Sent: 03/18/03 03:37 PM To: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Critics (was: Re: Freak In) Even to this day, how many print jazz zines are there out there besides Signal To Noise? I'm sure I'm forgetting some but I don't think that there's many. Hope I'm wrong though.